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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is there even any estimate as to how many additional cards would be issued?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: On the changes that were made for the over-70s such as the income thresholds, how many additional cards have been-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: What was that figure again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Based on that change alone, what would the HSE expect the additional number of cards to be in the course of a full year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I am asking for that projection. What is the projected yearly number of additional cards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Where are we with the negotiations with the IMO to extend the medical cards for those aged eight to 12? Where does that stand? Legislation was passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas and I assume it is now part of the negotiations with the IMO. Can we get a sense of where that stands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I am going to stop Mr. Noonan there. I asked if the negotiation has commenced. It has not. I put it to the Chairman that this is unacceptable. Obviously, there are many other issues on which the Department would engage with the IMO. Legislation was passed in this area. Government representatives were out saying that this was great news, as it was, and claiming credit for the fact that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I will put my questions to Dr. Green. Earlier, Mr. Ryan stated, "The HSE is aware that some medical card holders have experienced difficulties in accessing treatment under the DTSS." Is this Dr. Green's view also?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Is that an understatement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I put it to Dr. Green that the problem is systemic. The problem I have with Mr. Ryan's opening statement and the response I have received so far is that it puts it back onto the individual medical card holder. What the Irish Dental Association has said is a world apart from what Mr. Ryan stated earlier. The association has said the treatment scheme for medical card holders is in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The figures I have been given show that from 2015 to 2020 there was a 31% drop-off of dentists from dental treatment service scheme contracts, going from 1,847 to 1,279. That reduction was significant. The Irish Dental Association also said that some of the contracts are what it would call "inactive". I have received many representations from patients who are medical card holders and who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I am going to say to the Cathaoirleach, as I finish because I assume my time is up, that again we are hearing about a promise of a review and a promise of changes. The issues with this scheme are long-standing. The crises that I have been hearing about in respect of public dentistry, orthodontic waiting lists, medical card holders' access to the scheme and the resourcing of the scheme are...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The bottom line is that it is down to the relationship between the European Commission and AstraZeneca but that shortfall will not be made up. That is what I am hearing. We are not going to get the vaccines that were committed to by AstraZeneca, which is deeply frustrating and deeply disappointing. People want to know that the Minister can get what is under his remit right. I have two...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: My colleague is coming in now.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: We are entering into a critical phase in the fight against Covid. This is the phase in which we can fight back and win. It is the phase in which we can give people hope that, over the next number of months if we start to get things right, we can see the easing of restrictions as we move into the third quarter. For that to happen, however, the State has to get its part right. The...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The 1.1 million doses are short of what we were expecting. Obviously that is down to the shortfall in the AstraZeneca vaccines. Will the Minister give us a guarantee that the shortfall, which comes to several hundred thousand doses and is quite significant, will be made up in the second quarter?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: The projection we were given some months ago was 1.4 million doses. It was reduced to 1.2 million and then to 1.1 million. That is a bit more than a 100,000 shortfall. Will the vaccine doses that were previously committed to and were part of the advance purchase agreements and which did not arrive in the first quarter of this year be made up in the second quarter or will there be a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve the ambulance service in the Dublin area; the effect of the improvements to date on the waiting times for ambulances; his plans to locate an additional ambulance base in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in the Dublin area; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if businesses which were non-trading in March 2020 but began or were due to begin trading in 2020 or 2021 during the pandemic will qualify for the Covid-19 business aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13884/21]